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With technology draining the satisfaction of being first to crack a cipher, a fellow code-breaker told Tomokiyo: "I feel useless."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

At the Pyry Conference near Warsaw in 1939, Polish cryptologists invited French and British counterparts, including Alastair Denniston and Dilly Knox, to share their pioneering success in breaking the German Enigma machine cipher.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

To make the journey work without the audiences seeing each other, Broucke used a mathematical application called a Caesar cipher, created by the Roman general to send encrypted messages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

For the public’s purposes, she was a cipher onto which we were urged to project our romantic fantasies.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

Other Western mathematicians didn’t change the word so heavily and called zero cifra, which became cipher.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Tomokiyo said that since mid-September, most of the ciphers on his list have been cracked using AI.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The love he once had for baseball he now felt for a strange and mysterious place that was as old as history itself yet as secretive as the classical ciphers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Bottom line: Avast uses well-established, open-source, industry-standard ciphers, which provide excellent security.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

They were challenged to embed hidden codes, and ciphers into their designs.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

The top brass also remembered all too well how Yardley’s boastful book had made Japan dump its old codes and ciphers, then create much harder ones.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

You can let a computer create various passwords and convert them into ciphered values using known hash functions.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 13, 2023

The ciphered letters were believed to be Italian.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023

Also known as Mary Stuart, the then deposed queen of Scotland, who was a contender for the English throne, wrote these 57 ciphered letters between 1578 and 1584.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 8, 2023

But they were stumped by the even more complex ciphered messages being transmitted among Hitler and the generals Erwin Rommel, Wilhelm Keitel, Gerd von Rundstedt and Alfred Jodl.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2014

I could have ciphered the meaning then, if it has a meaning.

From Dorothy on a House Boat by Evelyn Raymond

He used intricate script to write in a ciphering book, which was kept by students of the day to progress through the entirety of their mathematics education.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2021

He expressed his ciphering talent in an addendum to a letter his wife wrote on July 14, 1897.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2021

This reminds us of when some big, musty steamer trunk of a bill gets plopped down in Congress and the poor folks at the Congressional Budget Office get to ciphering.

From Fox News ● May 5, 2020

“You can tell that when me and Rondo are ciphering through our Rolodex of mental basketball capacity that those guys are like, ‘OK, what are you all talking about?’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2018

“So ciphering and grammar make people crazy,” I said, taking care to phrase it as a statement.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss